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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: nancy santos <nancysantos20002000@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:48:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: REPLY


Sir My name is CEDIA D.ESTRADA,the wife of Mr.JOSEPH ESTRADA,the former President of Philipine located in the South East Esia. I called your embassy, which described your country as being economically conducive for investment and people as transparent and trustworthy to engage in business on which premise I write you. Though I did not described the reason for my enquiries to the embassy. My husband was recently impeached from office by a backed uprising of mass demostratators and the Senate. My husband is presently in jail and facing trial on charges of corruption, embezzlement, and the moserious charge of plunder which might lead to death sentence. The present government is forcing my husband out of manila to avoid demostration by his suppoter. During my husband's regime as president of philipine, I realized som e reasonable amount of money from various deals that I succesfully executed. Ihave plans to invest this money for my children's future on real estate and industrial
production. My husband is not awere of this because I wish to do it secretly for now. before my husband was impeached, I secretlysiphoned the sum of $21,000,000 million USD (Twenty-one million, United states dollars) out of Philipine and deposited the money with a security firm that transports valuable goods and consignments through diplomatic means. I also decleared that the consignment was solid gold and my foreign business partner owned it. I am contacting you because I want you to go to the security company and claim the money on my behalf since I have decleared that the consignment belong to my foreign business partner. You shall also be required to assist me in investment in your country. I trust you as a God fearing person who will not sit on this money when you claim it, rather assist me properly I expect you to decleare what percentage of the total money you will take for your assistance. when I receive your positve response I shall refer you to my attorney who is !
presently
with all the deposit documents and he shall send them to you to enable you proceed to the security company and claim the money. I shall also let you know where the security company is and the payment pin code to claim the money which is very important. For now, let all our communication is by e-mail becuase my line are right now connected to the philipine Telecomunication Network services. Please also send me your telephone and fax number. I will give more details when I receive your reply. Thank you and God bless you and family. MRS CEDIA ESTRADA

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